Lynsey Addario
[Photographer, b. 1973, Norwalk, Connecticut, lives in Islington, England.]
I choose to live in peace and witness war—to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
Lewis Baltz
[Photographer, b. 1945, Newport Beach, California, d. 2014, Paris.]
...you don’t put an object in a museum because it’s beautiful; an object is beautiful because you put it in a museum. Everything is photogenic once it has been photographed.
Patti Smith
[Musician, artist, and writer, b. 1946, Chicago, Illinois, lives in Detroit and New York.]
He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else.
(On Robert Mapplethorpe)
Abraham Lincoln
[Lawyer, politician, and leader, b. 1809, Hodgenville, Kentucky, d. 1865, Washington, D.C..]
There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
Aleksander Rodchenko
[Artist, designer, architect, b. 1891, St. Petersburg, d. 1956, Moscow.]
Damn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. They do not understand new things.
William J. T. Mitchell
[Writer, theorist, and architect, b. 1944, Melbourne, Australia, lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
Pictures of pain are not necessarily painful pictures, and this is why our response to them fluctuates between shame and delight, horror and pleasure.
August Sander
[Photographer, b. 1876, Herdorf, Germany, d. 1964, Cologne.]
I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves. The portrait is your mirror.
Italo Calvino
[Writer, b. 1923, Santiago de la Vegas, Cuba, d. 1985, Siena, Italy.]
The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.
